This Week in KDE Apps
Marble gets an update, KDE Connect gets a speed boost, and Kate gets all fluttery
Welcome to a new issue of “This Week in KDE Apps”! In case you missed it, we announced this series a few weeks ago, and our goal is to cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps and supplement Nate's This Week in Plasma published yesterday.
This week we had new releases of Tellico and Krita. We are also covering news regarding KDE Connect, the link between all your devices; Kate, the KDE advanced text editor; Itinerary, the travel assistant that helps you plan all your trips; Marble, KDE's map application; and more.
Let's get started!
Dolphin Manage your files
Dolphin now uses ripgrep-all or ripgrep for content search when Baloo indexing
is disabled. Detailed information
(Jin Liu, 24.12.0. Link)
The checksum and permissions tab in the property dialog used by Dolphin and other KIO-enabled applications is now more consitent with the other tabs. (Thomas Duckworth, Frameworks 6.8. Link)
Kaidan Modern chat app for every device
Kaidan, KDE's XMPP instant messaging app, improves support for group chats. (Melvin Keskin, Link)
Kate Advanced Text Editor
Kate adds out of the box support for debugging Flutter projects. (Waqar Ahmed, 24.12.0. Link 1, link 2)
The option to 'Reopen latest closed documents' has been added to the tab context menu. (Waqar Ahmed, 24.12.0. Link)
Kdenlive Video editor
KDE e.V. and Kdenlive have posted two job offers for contractors to work on Kdenlive. Will this be your opportunity to contribute to KDE and get paid too?
KDE Connect Seamless connection of your devices
KDE Connect starts up much faster on macOS — startup time has gone from 3s to 100ms! (Albert Vaca Cintora, 24.12.0. Link)
Kleopatra Certificate manager and cryptography app
Kleopatra makes its decryption errors easier to understand when content was encrypted with a certificate you don't have. (Tobias Fella, 24.12.0. Link)
Krita Digital Painting, Creative Freedom
Krita 5.2.6 is out and fixes a critical issue that popped up in last week's release. More information.
Krusader File Manager
Krusader has been migrated to Qt6 and KF6. (Alex Bikadorov, 3.0.0. Link)
KStars Desktop Planetarium
KStars 3.7.3 is out with exciting features for astrophotography buffs. You're going to want to update if you're using multiple cameras with per-camera targeting and scheduling, leader-and-follower jobs, and focus synchronization. Read more here!
Weather View real-time weather forecasts
KWeather removes the "Add current location" button, as it doesn't work anymore since the shutdown of Mozilla's location service. (Devin Lin, 24.08.2. Link)
The setup wizard has been overhauled. (Devin Lin, 24.08.2. Link)
KDE Itinerary Digital travel assistant
A new bi-monthly blog post about Itinerary and the infrastructure behind it is out: August/September in KDE Itinerary
Itinerary now extracts membership ids in German-language Eurostar (Thalys) tickets (Luca Weiss, 24.08.2. Link)
It can extract seat reservation data from SBB QR codes (Volker Krause, 24.08.2. Link)
If you are arranging accommodations, Itinerary can handle German language variants of NH Hotels booking confirmations (Volker Krause, 24.08.2. Link)
LabPlot Interactive Data Visualization and Analysis
The Color Maps Browser now has multiple view modes. Including one that shows detailed information about the used colors in the color map and that also allows to copy those values. (Alexander Semke, Link)
Added a new visualization type: Run Chart, (Alexander Semke, Link)
NeoChat Chat on Matrix
NeoChat has a fix for a frequent and random crash on Android caused by receiving a notification. (James Graham, 24.12.0. Link)
The hover actions for the messages are now more reliable. (Carl Schwan, 24.12.0. Link)
Marble Virtual Globe
Marble Behaim got a new logo, similar to the Marble Maps logo. (Mathis Brüchert, 24.12.0. Link)
Marble Maps routing functionality was ported to Qt6 and redesigned. (Carl Schwan, 24.12.0. Link)
Spectacle Screenshot Capture Utility
Spectacle fixed a crash when saving while the system's timezone is misconfigured (Noah Davis, 24.08.2. Link)
Tellico Collection Manager
Tellico, the KDE app that helps you manage all your collecions, is out with version 4.0.1. This version includes fixes for Qt6. More information.
Tokodon Browse the Fediverse
Tokodon fetches public servers and displays them in a list for registration. The list is fetched from joinmastodon.org and more filtering options will be added later. (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
Instead of wrapping all the tags for a post, they are now made scrollable. (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
Apps on Windows
KDE Apps on windows now have better looking tooltips and menus without black corners. (Carl Schwan, Breeze 6.2.1. Link)
Third Party Applications
To get your application mentioned here. Please contact us on invent or in Matrix.
Kraft Quotes and invoices for small business
Kraft is a desktop app making it easy to create offers and invoices quickly and beautifully in small companies. Version 1.2.2 was just released and contains some small bug fixes. This is the last release before Kraft 2.0. More information.
…And Everything Else
This blog only covers the tip of the iceberg! If you’re hungry for more, check out Nate's blog about Plasma and KDE's Planet, where you can find more news from other KDE contributors.
Get Involved
The KDE organization has become important in the world, and your time and contributions have helped us get there. As we grow, we're going to need your support for KDE to become sustainable.
You can help KDE by becoming an active community member and getting involved. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to be a programmer, either. There are many things you can do: you can help hunt and confirm bugs, even maybe solve them; contribute designs for wallpapers, web pages, icons and app interfaces; translate messages and menu items into your own language; promote KDE in your local community; and a ton more things.
You can also help us by donating. Any monetary contribution, however small, will help us cover operational costs, salaries, travel expenses for contributors and in general help KDE continue bringing Free Software to the world.
To get your application mentioned here. Please let us know in invent or in Matrix.